Celastrus.] — CELASTRINER, 251 
2. M. bivalvis, Wall. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 614.—A small evergreen 
tree, all parts glabrous, leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute 
at base, on a 3-4 lin. long petiole, shortly and bluntish-acuminate, 
3-5 in. long, entire, thin coriaceous, especially above glossy, pale 
beneath ; flowers small, on very short thick pedicels or almost sessile, 
supported by a minute bractlet, forming a small dichotomous cyme 
on slender 1-14 in. long, axillary or lateral peduncles; sepals coria- 
ceous, rotundate, with whitish borders ; petals twice as long as the 
sepals (or wanting?) ; capsules about 4-5 lin. long, elliptically 
oblong, terminated by the short style, smooth. 
Has.—In the tropical forests of Tenasserim.—Fl. Febr.-Sept.; Fr. Octob, 
=a, 
3. M. discolor, Wall. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 514.—An ever, shrub, 
about 6-8 ft. high, all parts glabrous ; leaves lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, on a thick 3-4 lin. long petiole, acuminate at base, entire, 
shortly and finely acuminate, glabrous, opaque, pale beneath, some- 
What coriaceous, 5-7 in. long ; flowers small, whitish, soon turning 
yellowish, on very short thick pedicels or almost sessile, forming 
dense short cymes on 2-4 lin. long thick peduncles in the axils of 
the leaves or more frequently laterally ; sepals coriaceous, rotun- 
date ; petals nearly 14 lin. long; capsules oblong, the size of a 
small field-bean, smooth, 2-valved, 1-seeded, the seed oval, with a 
thin succulent-veined scarlet testa. 
 Has.—Rather frequent in the damp hill-forests of Martaban and Tenasserim 
at 5,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. March.—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
CELASTRUS, L. 
Flowers sometimes unisexual. Calyx urceolate at base, 5-cleft. 
Petals 5, inserted round the disk. Stamens 5, inserted on the 
Pp pavotsthaaacs 3 eymes short and slender, axillary. . C. See. 
© Cymes dichotomously branched, axillary . . . C. montanus, 
Raceme-ike ponte pein So a ae capsules several- : 
oS Raceme like panicles axillary (and terminal) ; leaves ‘elliptically ph rene 
“ 5 capsules 1-seeded oe Ss - « +» C, monospermus. 
